From its headquarters in Clonakilty in West Cork, Global Shares, an employee-owned financial technology company, runs a network of 15 offices around Europe, Asia, and the US. The company employs 340 staff and recently announced plans to increase that number to 500 as part of a mission to achieve a billion-dollar valuation by 2024. The company operates at the coalface of a rapidly growing industry, managing employee share plans and stock management plans. It performs this task for some of the world’s best-known companies in more than 100 countries. The Covid-19 crisis has had an initial short-term negative impact on…